PLEASE NOTE: in order to be considered for the role, it is mandatory to fill in this 10-minute online assessment.
Imagine turning your coding/AI skills into features that:
- Help build experiences that users genuinely love
- Automate tedious internal processes for our teams
- Prototype intelligent workflows that make banking faster and fairer
This isn't just an internship, it's your chance to ship real impact in Africa's fastest-growing fintech space, get hands-on mentorship from experienced engineers, and potentially launch your career with us. Many of our best people started exactly where you are!
On a daily basis you will:
- Rapidly Prototype Features: Build beautiful, interactive AI-powered prototypes (using tools like Lovable/Bolt/Make/N8N) — think smart loan recommenders, personalized dashboards, automated KYC assistants, or fraud alert systems.
- Automate Internal Magic Spot repetitive tasks (report generation, data reconciliation, support triage, compliance checks) and create no/low-code automations that save hours — turning manual work into intelligent, reliable flows.
- Explore Core Banking Superpowers Experiment with integrating AI models into our platform: real-time credit scoring, transaction anomaly detection, customer behavior insights, dashboards — all while learning secure, scalable fintech engineering.
- Collaborate & Ship Fast Work in a small, energetic team with a product manager, engineer and operators. Run quick experiments, demo prototypes weekly, and iterate based on real feedback.
- Grow & Learn Out Loud Document your wins, present to the team, and absorb best practices in AI for fintech — from prompt engineering to ethical AI in financial services.
Kwara is a mission-driven and a fast-growing fintech company, revolutionizing digital banking for SACCOs in Kenya. Our unique growth engine has allowed our 240+ clients to grow 10X faster than their peers, which is why they love us. We are proud to be backed by some of the best investors globally, including Breega, Softbank and many more!